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You are all MONSTER MAIDS (or butlers) at the

GM: Create an Episode Trailer
service of a human MISTRESS (or Master). Roll or choose on the table below!
Monster + Maid h
Your days are filled with household chores, v TODAY IS... Mistress is a silly and
heartwarming Tabletop RPG
shopping for groceries, attempting to cook 1. Sunny 4. Windy by Emanuele Galletto, based
human-edible meals, inadvertantly display- 2. Raining 5. Cloudy
upon John Harper’s Lasers &
Feelings (onesevendesign.com).
ing monstrous features and powers, getting to
3. Foggy 6. Snowing
know humans, and accidentally teaching kids This game is licensed under

magical diagrams instead of merely helping v AND THE MAIDS ARE... a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

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3. At a shopping district 6. At the mall
Players: Create your Maid! Rolling Dice! [email protected]

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v WHERE...
Choose a Monster Species for your maid: Dragon, Gorgon, When your maid confronts an obstacle and at least one other 1. A monster 4. A student
Fonts:
Bebas
Kraken, Minotaur, Mummy, Slime, Tengu, Wyvern... person at the table thinks their actions are important for the Bocartes Fritos
development of the episode, roll dice. 2. The Mistress 5. A neighbor

2 Choose a Style for your maid’s humanoid form: Cheerful,

Creepy, Elegant, Energetic, Innocent, Lazy, Scary, Sexy... l Roll 3d6 if the obstacle is supernatural, or...
3. An NPC Maid 6. A celebrity
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v WANTS TO...
3 Choose your Number, from 2 to 5. A high number means
you’re better at being a MONSTER (instinct, passion, feroci-
l Roll 2d6 if the obstacle is mundane.
l Roll -1d6 if the circumstances are desperate (GM’s choice).
1. Win someone’s heart 4. Become popular
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ty, magic, strength and impulsive actions). A low number means 2. Spy on someone 5. Find a new home Wingdings 3
you’re better at being a MAID (kindness, dedication, attention, X If you rely on your MONSTER side (instinct, passion, 3. Make money 6. Perform a ritual
calm and controlled actions). magic, strength), you want to roll under your number.
4 Give your maid a suitably mythological Name and a much
less impressive Nickname: Apsû (Appy), Fafnir (Fefe), Levia- X
If you rely on your MAID side (kindness, dedication,
attention, calm), you want to roll above your number. GM: Facilitate the Game!
than (Levy), Medusa (Maddy), Pegasus (Peggy)... As the GM (Game Mistress), your job is to help make scenes run
If none of your dice succeed, things go really badly and
You Have: Magical clothes that you can conjure at-will if you 0 the situation gets worse, in a true escalation of bad
smoothly, roleplay the NPCs and narrate the outcome of rolls
(with the exception of a Critical Success or a Doki Doki Time!).
ruin or destroy them; supernatural abilities appropriate to your luck, clumsiness and misunderstandings.
species; and a poor understanding of humans. The GM describes what went wrong. You are also responsible for determining whether an obstacle is
Player Goal: Get your maid in silly troubles and engage in supernatural or mundane, and whether the circumstances of a
If one of your dice succeeds, you barely manage to do roll are desperate; when you do so, think anime-like (drama and
heartwarming, slice-of-life anime shenanigans. 1 it. The GM inflicts some kind of complication or cost. silliness are more important than verisimilitude).
Character Goal: Choose one or create your own.
Don’t plan a plot or force outcomes: simply present the episode
If two of your dice succeed, you achieve your goal!
f Get your Mistress (or Master) to fall in love with you. 2 The GM describes how you manage to do so.
trailer, introduce a starting situation, then react to the players’
5 Help your Mistress (or Master) make lots of money. actions and choices. Ask questions, build on the answers.
If three dice succeed, you get a Critical Success. The
6 Cook the best meal ever. 3 GM will tell you what kind of additional benefit you get, Irrevocable Change
7 Teach your Mistress (or Master) the power of magic. and you narrate the outcome of the action!
As the game progresses, a maid’s number might reach 1 or 6.
d Help your Mistress (or Master) conquer a kingdom.
If you roll exactly your number on one or more dice, l If it reaches 1, the maid loses her monstrous nature and is
ドキドキ タイム!

. Learn as much as you can about the strange humans. you get Doki Doki Time! and overcome the situation in forever transformed into a human.
a way that brings you to reevaluate yourself and grow
l If it reaches 6, the maid returns to her purely monstrous form
Players: Create the Mistress! closer to being more humanlike or more monstrous.
and forever leaves the world of humans.
Increase or decrease your number by 1, then narrate
As a group, choose two Virtues for your Mistress (or Master): how you resolve the situation! Whenever any of these happens, the group must work together
Ambitious, Energetic, Kind, Knowledgeable, Reliable, Wealthy. and roleplay a properly heartwarming or heartbreaking scene.
You may also use this opportunity to end your maid’s
Then, pick two Problems that affect her daily life: Broke, Clumsy, role through irrevocable change (see right column). Then, the character becomes an NPC under the GM’s control
Overworked, Pampered, Terrible Love Life, Unmotivated. and the player creates a new maid.